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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Yangī Qal‘ah in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on October 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3805S, 69.6963WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Yangī Qal‘ah in Afghanistan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:13:23 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rk56. Unique identifier: us6000rk56. Global time and date of event 29/10/25 / 2025-10-29 09:13:23 / October 29, 2025 @ 9:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 69.6963° East, 37.3805° North, depth 10 km.

Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Qŭrghonteppa (c. 65 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Qarāwul (c. 24 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Qŭrghonteppa, Kolkhozobod, Khanabad (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SE of Yangī Qal‘ah, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.6963° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3805° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km SE of Yangī Qal‘ah, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-29 09:13:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-29 10:45:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rk56 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rk56 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rk56, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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